abstract paintings

These abstract paintings came out of a time of deep grief for my son, who passed away unexpectedly last July.

Initially, I didn’t think I would ever paint again.

He was my best friend. The one person I talked to about my art and its practice. The one person who was always at every exhibition and every public art appearance and now he wasn’t there.

But gradually, I gravitated to the studio. I had no intention in mind. I started to play around and gradually, it drew me in and I kept going. They're completely different to anything I'd done before. I had no intention other than to play with paint.

I thought I was creating abstract images but after a while, I began to see I’d been painting subconscious subjects. Images that illustrated the crossover between our dimension and the one my son now inhabits. I began to see that many of them were glimpses of this dimension, (our earthly abode) to the next dimension (our next abode).

I felt him closer as I created them.

In doing so, they became Works of Healing.